Yosemite National Park

Location:

California

Type:

Information sign

This sign shows "Yosemite National Park" carved on a dark wooden plate under the emblem of the National Park Service (featuring a buffalo grazing in the wild in front of a snow-clad mountain). Yosemite was the first of all national parks in the US. It receives every year almost 4 million visitors and it has been named World Heritage Site. Only 5% of Yosemite is designated as non-wilderness. It's world famous for its giant sequoia forest.